Firefox/Chrome/Opera: Right before Google announced Google+ the company changed the bar across the top of all Google pages black. That bar now has links to your often-used Google services, and the Google+ Enhancer userscript makes it more useful by adding unread item counts to the ones you use. »7/07/11 7:30am 7/07/11 7:30am

Firefox with Greasemonkey: User script Gmail Labels Icons extends the Gmail label customization from just colors to icons as well, so you can more easily tell your folders apart with a visual clue. »9/08/10 1:00pm 9/08/10 1:00pm

Most Browsers (Greasemonkey): If your Facebook News Feed is still clogged with annoying applications and unimportant updates, simple user script F. B. Purity can seriously narrow it down to just the important stuff. »8/05/10 9:00am 8/05/10 9:00am

Firefox/Chrome: If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, you've probably noticed the new Autoplay bar that pops up on the bottom of your screen with recommended videos—and here's how to get rid of it. »8/04/10 1:00pm 8/04/10 1:00pm

All browsers: The free JISC TechDis bookmarklet and user script does something long overdue for web users. It creates a toolbar that makes text bigger, changes its font, reads it out loud, spell checks it, and even pulls its references. »6/24/10 6:00am 6/24/10 6:00am

Firefox/Chrome: Wikipedia's footnote system isn't the best; constantly clicking up and down the page is a pain, and it's easy to lose your place. With this simple userscript (or bookmarklet), you can view footnote text by mousing over the footnote inline. »4/27/10 11:00am 4/27/10 11:00am

Most browsers: The article-saving, text-streamlining webapp Instapaper intentionally keeps its site dead simple to use. If you'd like just a bit of a color and style upgrade, the Threestyled script, and its Greystyled counterpart, add a bit of polish. »4/05/10 8:00am 4/05/10 8:00am

The nightly builds of Google Chrome's open-source foundation, Chromium, includes a feature that might mean great things for Greasemonkey fans. Click on a user script file, such as at UserScripts.org, and Chromium asks to install it as a working extension. »11/04/09 8:00am 11/04/09 8:00am

Firefox with Greasemonkey: If you're going to spend your time on Facebook, you can at least make it quicker to browse through and confirm that nothing earth-shattering has occurred. A simple Greasemonkey plug-in assigns Facebook sections to simple keyboard buttons. »10/13/09 6:00am 10/13/09 6:00am

Firefox users have Flashblock and other extensions to cut down on memory-hogging, browser-destabilizing Flash animations thrown haphazardly around the web. If you're a Google Chrome convert, BlockFlash2 can offer much the same protection against random moving objects. »9/24/09 5:30am 9/24/09 5:30am

Firefox: Google's clever, mysterious, and completely random logo changes, known as "doodles," usually last for just one day. With this Greasemonkey script, you can make any official Google doodle the logo you always see next to your search results. »9/18/09 5:30am 9/18/09 5:30am

Take a look at Leo Babuta's Zen Habits site, and you'll know he's a fan of content-focused minimalism. His Gmail web interface is likewise ultra-trim, and he details how to get there with Firefox and some Greasemonkey scripts. »9/02/09 5:30am 9/02/09 5:30am

Android users, iPhone users (anyone using Google Sync, in fact), and Google Contacts users in general with Facebook friends who list their phone number in their profiles will love this: »8/24/09 7:30am 8/24/09 7:30am